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IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager Fundamentals and Advanced Training – Nov. 15-19, 2010

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The Ironside Group is excited to publicly offer both our Fundamentals and Advanced Framework Manager Training courses in back-to-back fashion for the first time. As with all of our course offerings, this curricula is lead by our veteran consultants who have decades of in-depth real-world technical experience with IBM Cognos software. Take advantage of this special combined offering and become a Framework Manager expert in a weeks time.

Course: IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager Fundamentals (View Description)
When: November 15-17, 2010

Course: IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager Advanced (View Description)
When: November 18-19, 2010

Where: IBM Innovation Center (Newport Room), Waltham, MA (Boston)
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IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Fundamentals and Advanced Training – Dec. 6-10, 2010

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The Ironside Group is excited to publicly offer both our Fundamentals and Advanced Report Studio Training courses in back-to-back fashion for the first time. As with all of our course offerings, this curricula is lead by our veteran consultants who have decades of in-depth applied technical experience with IBM Cognos software. Take advantage of this special combined offering and become a Report Studio guru in a weeks time.

Course: IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Fundamentals (View Description)
When: December 6-8, 2010

Course: IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Advanced (View Description)
When: December 9-10, 2010

Where: Ironside Group, Lexington, MA (Boston)
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IBM Cognos Query Studio Training – Sept. 23, 2010

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Unburden your IT department by giving end users the ability to easily create and share their own Web-based Ad Hoc reports! Query Studio the easy-to-use tool that is designed for non-technical and business users who want self-service reporting without having to understand relational database schemas and concepts. This type of reporting is essential in allowing consumers to define and write secure reports that target a specific need, while still having the ability to share them with the entire organization.

Based on a proven training curriculum, the Ironside Group will provide instructor-led classes that highlight the report development techniques associated with IBM Cognos Query Studio.

Course: IBM Cognos 8 Query Studio (View Description)
When: September 23, 2010
Where: IBM Innovation Center (Newport Room), Waltham, MA (Boston)
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IBM Cognos Midsize Analytics Virtual Summit – Sept. 15, 2010

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IBM Cognos Midsize Business Analytics Virtual Summit

Would you like to unlock your data, turn that data into insights, and drive business growth? Join The Ironside Group on September 15th, 2010 for the third quarterly IBM Cognos Mid-Size Business Analytics Virtual Summit.  The first two have been a huge success drawing thousands of participants.  Come see whats new with Cognos Express.  IBM will be unveiling the newest capabilities of their Cognos Express Reporting, Analytics, and Planning software, purpose built for small to mid-size companies. Read more

New England Cognos Users Group Meeting – Sept. 16, 2010

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The New England Cognos Users Group is an amazing opportunity to network and collaborate with other IBM Cognos Professionals in the Northeast Region. Each event is packed with informative talks and demonstrations from local organizations that highlight their own applied experiences with IBM Cognos software. Experts from the Ironside Group are always in attendance more than happy to answer your toughest questions or help you down the path to resolving your most bothersome issues. Attendance is always free and open to the public.

This quarter’s upcoming meeting includes a presentation from Ironside Group CEO and Principal Consultant, Tim Kreytak and Mass Mutual’s own BI Guru, Isaac Stein, on the topic of Database Suitability Assessment and Framework Manager Best Practices.
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Customizing Cognos URL Objects (Part II)

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In part one of our customizing Cognos URL objects article, we discussed how to create a new URL link in Cognos Connection and change its default action to be open in a new re-sizable window to demonstrate one method of extending the existing Cognos capabilities. When developing Cognos professional reports, often times we get similar requests from end users: Can you open the requested page in a new window when a hyperlink is clicked? Unfortunately unlike a drill through link which allows a report author to choose to open the new page in a new window, the default action of the Insertable object hyperlink is always to open in the current web browser window. Now the question becomes how to set a hyperlink to open in new window? Is this even possible? The answer is “Yes” and can be done by following the three easy steps described below: Read more

IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Advanced Public Training Course

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Report Studio Advanced, the latest public class offering from the Ironside Group, is now available. If you are looking to improve your report writing skills with advanced techniques and tips and tricks to further enhance, customize and manage your report offerings then this course is for you. Courses are facilitated by our own veteran consultants to provide relevant, real world experience during training. Course class sizes will be kept small to ensure all participants receive the attention of the instructor during hands-on demos and workshops. Offered at a fraction of the cost of comparable courses, this Report Studio Advanced class will help to ensure the continued strategic and tactical success of all your BI initiatives.

Course: IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Advanced (View Description)
When: August 16-17, 2010
Where: IBM Innovation Center (Newport Room), Waltham, MA (Boston)
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Customizing Cognos URL Objects (Part 1)

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How Do URLs Currently Work In Cognos

Within IBM Cognos, a URL object is a very easy way of linking to any external file or web site. Using URLs helps you keep the files and web sites you use most frequently at your fingertips. However, the default behavior of a Cognos URL object opens the file or web site in the current browser, causing the user to move off of the current Cognos page. After opening the URL, you will have to click on the Back button in the browser to return to Cognos portal.

Can You Drive a URL Object to Behave Differently? Read more

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Creating Dynamic IBM Cognos Reports with jQuery

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There is a growing need to provide more dynamic and interactive reporting for technically savvy consumers that have elevated expectations for how their data should be presented to them. With the arrival of IBM Cognos 8.4 comes Cognos Mashup Services, an API that empowers us to build modern looking and feeling web applications using IBM Cognos Reports as a data source. But what do you do if you want to deliver that sort of functionality within Cognos Viewer? The following presentation describes how you can leverage the powerful open-source JavaScript library jQuery to add dynamic user interface elements to your reports or provide functionality previously unavailable. Demonstrations include dynamically filtered and sortable list reports as well as drill-down enabled Tree Map data visualizations.

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Presenting in Calendar Format

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The Problem

Over the past several years, we have had a number of customers inquire about a method to deliver real-time  scheduling information in a common calendar format.  Typically this requires the ability to schedule events around or related to other events, update dates in a separate application, and view the resulting calendar information immediately. The need for real-time information eliminates any possibility for caching or warehousing data which might be utilized to stage and provide performance improvements. Fortunately the amount of event data displayed on the calendar is often fairly small, and we can provide drill-down for specific events on the calendar, to more detailed information on lower-level reports. Additionally, other specific filters can be utilized to narrow the types of events to display within the calendar. This article describes one particular case of calendar reporting. Read more